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Recent Examples of hope chest
Lily Franck; 2024; USA; 4 min A mother’s hope chest becomes a catalyst for her daughter’s reconsideration of traditional gender roles in this charming stop-motion animation.
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Addie Morfoot, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
While the tradition of a hope chest has its roots thousands of years ago, cedar became the material du jour thanks to its insect-repelling qualities.
—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
My grad school dissertation explored hope chests and wedding traditions among Turkish women.
—Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024
The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
Addie Morfoot, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
While the tradition of a hope chest has its roots thousands of years ago, cedar became the material du jour thanks to its insect-repelling qualities.
—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
My grad school dissertation explored hope chests and wedding traditions among Turkish women.
—Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024
The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hope chest
Noun
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In isolation, against a white background that is actually overcast sky, a hook or a caisson or a sheaf of rebar appears sculptural, abstract, exquisite.—
Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Hitchcock recalled a day during the summer of 2007 when the cannon, now on its caisson and a moveable platform, was tested on the event level of Nationwide Arena, just beyond the ice-resurfacer entrance.—
Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Opulent green velvet wraps one room on all sides for an intimate, jewel box effect.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Architectural Digest,
9 Mar. 2026
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Jewel box bathrooms are trending, but what about jewel box showers?—
Alexandra Kelly,
Martha Stewart,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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With the song in expert hands, Dave Meyer, the commercial’s director, asked to add other off-kilter elements, including a plotline about Nickelback and Megan stealing new Cheetos from a vault and loading them on to a giant truck that would also serve as their escape vehicle.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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Suffice to say, the ingredients (now in my vault) are very high quality.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Advertisement Water flows uphill to money, and the proverbial canteen gets kicked downstream.—
Pete McBride,
Time,
27 Feb. 2026
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Accommodation was within the Gothic stone of the college itself, and most meals were served in the Hall (think Hogwarts’s canteen).—
Richard Godwin,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Troopers have determined the bus was carrying about 60 seventh and eighth grade students and adult staff members when the engine compartment began to smoke just south of Exit 32.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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In her experiment, McPherson and colleagues created a set-up holding human, mice and pig sperm cells in one part of the compartment and egg cells in the other, divided by a thin channel simulating the female reproductive tract.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Chapter 1: The First Lieutenant Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story.—
David Grann,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2023
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The crack formed on a spot where two pieces were welded together and was hidden behind a sea chest that houses a fire pump, which is part of an onboard sprinkler system.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
16 Sep. 2017
Noun
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The poem might also be a safe-deposit box, keeping the names of species intact for an environmentally unstable future, when the trees that the poem names may only exist in language.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Nov. 2025
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Put all hard copies in a safe-deposit box or keep them at a separate property, or store all documentation in the cloud (never hurts to do both!).—
Janet Arzt,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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“Hope chest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hope%20chest. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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